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The South African Broadcasting Corporation is in the news for not airing a politically
sensitive documentary that details allegations of apartheid-era theft of public
funds. The public broadcaster, which had commissioned the film, has also refused
to sell the rights back to the filmmaker and has filed a lawsuit demanding she turn
over her raw footage and accusing her of breaching copyright by staging private
screenings.

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Just over 55 years ago, on New Year's Eve 1957, trailblazing
South African journalist Henry Nxumalo was murdered while investigating
suspicious deaths at an abortion clinic in Sophiatown, a suburb west of
Johannesburg.

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New
York, December 16, 2011--South African authorities announced on Thursday the
launch of a criminal probe against international news agencies The Associated
Press and Reuters for installing cameras outside the home of anti-Apartheid
figure Nelson Mandela, according to news reports.

On Monday, in a public lecture at New
York University, South African Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe described as irreversible the democratic
gains made since the end of apartheid, including the advancement of press
freedom. "We have a constitution which guarantees basic human rights such as
freedom of association, freedom of the press, and the independent judiciary," he
declared. Many in South Africa, however, are not so sure that press freedom's future is secure.

On Wednesday, just before South African lawmakers were scheduled to debate amendments to the controversial Protection of Information Bill, thousands of protesters marched to the gates of Parliament in Cape Town to oppose the measure, which they called an "apartheid-style secrecy bill." The marchers represented a broad coalition of media, academia, trade unions and civil society groups.

On October 19, 1977, South Africa's government banned The World newspaper, along with Weekend World, the paper's weekly magazine, and Pro Veritate, a Christian publication. Authorities also detained scores of activists and outlawed 17 anti-apartheid groups during the one-day crackdown, which came to be known as Black Wednesday.

Cape Town's St George's Cathedral, a rallying point for
civil rights action during apartheid, was the site of the public launch on
Tuesday of a mass campaign aimed at stopping a secrecy bill seen as a major
threat to South Africans' hard-won freedom.